good phone, the best I had with a keyboard

a2345 has owned it for less than year before publishing this review

keep keep the review simple - I'll just focus on the most important features - starting with the keyboard. I think this is the single most important feature of the phone. It's absolutely amazing keyboard. Keys are properly spaced for my large fingers and they work perfectly - better than on Samsung phones I had previously. I had two types of Samsungs with keyboards before - I had a Gravity TXT which had a bad keyboard and the Samsung Transform Ultra - which was much better - but still LG Mach beats it easily.
The thing I love about this keyboard is additional row of numeric keys. Whoever thought of that was a genious.

Sound quality is OK. It is not distorted or anything. Can't complain.
Better than average, but not as good as my second phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250.

As for the negatives.
The feature I dislike is unability to turn off the WiFi.
You could turn it off alright, but then it comes back on by itself and you have to turn it off again.
This sucks and drains the battery.
Maybe there is a way to keep it shut down, but I don't know how.
If you know - let me know.

Second bad thing is the unlocking algorithm.
The phone allows a wide range of swapping movement to unlock the screen.
This is bad because when the phone rings in your pocket and you reach for it - it is most likely you are gonna receive the call just by touching the screen in your pocket.

I hate that.
I prefer to see who calls first prior to taking it.

It would be much better to have it like the Samsungs...

keep keep the review simple - I'll just focus on the most important features - starting with the keyboard. I think this is the single most important feature of the phone. It's absolutely amazing keyboard. Keys are properly spaced for my large fingers and they work perfectly - better than on Samsung phones I had previously. I had two types of Samsungs with keyboards before - I had a Gravity TXT which had a bad keyboard and the Samsung Transform Ultra - which was much better - but still LG Mach beats it easily.
The thing I love about this keyboard is additional row of numeric keys. Whoever thought of that was a genious.

Sound quality is OK. It is not distorted or anything. Can't complain.
Better than average, but not as good as my second phone Samsung Galaxy Nexus I9250.

As for the negatives.
The feature I dislike is unability to turn off the WiFi.
You could turn it off alright, but then it comes back on by itself and you have to turn it off again.
This sucks and drains the battery.
Maybe there is a way to keep it shut down, but I don't know how.
If you know - let me know.

Second bad thing is the unlocking algorithm.
The phone allows a wide range of swapping movement to unlock the screen.
This is bad because when the phone rings in your pocket and you reach for it - it is most likely you are gonna receive the call just by touching the screen in your pocket.

I hate that.
I prefer to see who calls first prior to taking it.

It would be much better to have it like the Samsungs - to swipe only in a specific way, so the phone keeps ringing until you are ready to take a call.
And again - there maybe a fix to that - just I don't know it and I have no time to invest to investigate.

Finally - the real problem I found is the battery behavior in out of reception area - like a marina, wher I keep my boat and places like 10 miles away from the mainland.

If I don't remember to shut it down before leaving - the phone drains the battery very quickly.
This is wrong. It shouldn't do that.
It is totaly surprising to see everyone on board check their emails and stuff when I can't even turn it on after few hours off mainland.

Despite those minor issues I am giving this phone high mark, because it is truly the best keyboard phone I found so far.
I don't use the internet much so I don't care about connectivity situation and speed. The phone does its job and I like it.
I keep a charger in my pocket for off land trips and besides - the batter life is quite good with the reception present.

Build quality10/10

Reception8/10

Call quality8/10

Internet6/10

Multimedia8/10I don't want to put this rating - because I don't use multimedia - but you are forcing me so give it 8

Camera8/10I don't want to put this rating - because I don't use the camera much - but you are forcing me so give it 8

UI speed8/10I don't want to put this rating - because I don't know what it is - but you are forcing me so give it 8

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